Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard (5 May 1813-11 November 1855) was a Danish philosopher who founded the existentialist school of philosophy

Biography
Søren Kierkegaard was born to an affleunt family in Copenhagen, Denmark-Norway on 5 May 1813. He attended the University of Copenhagen and became known for his journal entries, becoming a passionate writer. While composing his early work, he wrote under pseudonyms, and he controversially claimed that "Science and scholarship want to teach that becoming objective is the way. Christianity teaches that the way is to become subjective, to become a subject." He wrote critical texts on organized religion, Christendom, morality, ethics, psychology, and the philosophy of religion, and he focused on living as a "single individual". While he never coined the term, Kierkegaard is often regarded as the founder of existentialism, proposing that each individual is solely responsible for giving meaning to life and living it sincerely (or "authentically"). Kierkegaard died in 1855 from complications following a fall (during another one of his walks through Copenhagen) caused by tuberculosis.